Srinagar, Jan 17 (KNS): Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation have decided to protest against proposed hike in rent by JK Muslim Wakf Board on its properties including shops and commercial establishments.
This was decided after the Federation members held a meet under the Vice President Manzoor Ahmad Bhat at their head office Budshah chowk.
“It was this government which deprived business community of decent rehabilitation of traders post 2014 floods. It was this government which remained a reason for months of unrest when we traders did no business and now when we struggling for revival of business, the government is pushing us to another aggression,” Bhat said.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Bhat said the hike of rent on Wakf assets will have a cascading effect on all shopkeepers across Kashmir”.
He said the business community was being pushed to the wall again and again and that it seems that the government wants the Kashmir Traders to take to streets than do business smoothly.”We don’t want to be at loggerheads with government and want to do our business but government is instigating us to take extreme steps. Government will be responsible for the repercussions,” Bhat said. (KNS)